History & Criticism

A treasure of a gift for the well-read woman, this collection brings together 50 stirring portraits, in watercolor and in word, of literature's most well-re...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's comedic play about two enduring human illusions—the dream of a simple life and the ideal of romantic...

Studies the effects of the Vietnam War on West Point's class of 1966 and on the academy, recounting the loss of idealism that prompted many to leave their m...

A thought-provoking and concise rebuttal to E.O. Wilson's Consilience In his best-seller Consilience, E.O. Wilson presented a blueprint for the reconciliat...

Here's a pot-pourri of stimulating reading...for moments when nothing but the most absorbing material will do! No more frantic searches at the last minute ...

This Collection Of Original Essays By Many Of Today's Preeminent Interpreters Of Continental Philosophy Explores The Question Of Whether Western Thought And...

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714, this updated and expanded Sourcebook brings together an impressive array of Tudor-St...

In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere... As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wut...

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound...

From Gregory Maguire, The Acclaimed Author Of Wicked, Comes His Much-anticipated Second Novel, A Brilliant And Provocative Retelling Of The Timeless Cindere...

Copenhagen is a reimagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner He...

Millions of us ravenously devour novels every year. It’s not surprising that we also wrestle with them, judge them, press them on our friends (often dema...

San Francisco Book-restoration Expert Brooklyn Wainwright Is On The Case When A Rare Edition Of Rebecca Leads To Murder In This Latest Installment Of The Ne...

A community of moles in a forest near Oxford faces a bleak and evil-laden future unless two of their number, young Bracken and his mate Rebecca, can revive ...

How can an honorable lady like Lady Catriona Hennessy unite with a rake like Richard Cynster? Though charmed by his commanding presence, she cannot give u...

Ecofeminist Literary Criticism is the first collection of its kind: a diverse anthology that explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism an...

Leisured Resistance Examines The Varied Ways In Which Cultured Roman Aristocrats, Of Very Different Periods, Used Their Country Estates As A Political And L...

The World's Greatest War Novel Humans And Gods Wrestling With Towering Emotions. Men Fighting To The Death Amid Devastation And Destruction. Perhaps The Wes...

a Critical Rethinking Of Theories Of National Imagination, the Dawn That Never Comes Offers The Most Detailed Reading To Date In English Of One Of Modern J...

The definitive biography of Her Majesty The Queen by one of Britain’s leading royal authorities.\'This is a beautifully-crafted, deeply informed and round...

This Norton Critical Edition reprints the authoritative Wesleyan text of Joseph Andrews, edited by Martin Battestin. An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding...

what Is Lost In Translation May Be A War, A World, A Way Of Life. A Unique Look Into The Nineteenth-century Clash Of Empires From Both Sides Of The Earths...

Alexandre Dumas ; Revised Translation, With An Introduction And Notes By David Coward. Originally Published As World's Classics Paperback 1990. Reissued As ...

Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, ca...

At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway -- one of the fashion world's most successful photographers -- is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmot...

The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year. The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than eve...

Each edition includes:• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages fa...

The Art Of Fact Is A Historical Treasury Tracing What Used To Be Called New Journalism Back To Such Pioneers As Defoe, Dickens, And Orwell, And To Crime Wri...

One Of The Best Books Of The Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, The Christian Science Monitor Willa Drake Has Had Three Opportunities To Start Her Li...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on ...

Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous...

With Echoes Of Romeo And Juliet, Noughts & Crosses Is An Electrifying, Bittersweet Love Story Set In A Society Divided By Racial Bigotry And A World Roc...

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two ...

Mortals and Monsters. Quests and Adventures . . . __________ There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on suc...

The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language—now in a handsome edition featuring exquisite color illustr...

With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. In...

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart...

Tracing The Genesis Of A Masterpiece, A Fitzgerald Scholar Follows The Novelist As He Begins Work On The Great Gatsby. The Autumn Of 1922 Found F. Scott Fit...

The first of two sensational love stories featuring the twin Cynster sisters--one wild and one wicked--in Regency England. Amanda Cynster is bored with the...

For as long as she can remember, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal si...

A collection of essays and reviews by the British novelist and journalist Martin Amis (son of the late Sir Kingsley Amis), author of "The Rachel Papers," "S...

what Is Culture? What Are Cultures? Are Literary Texts And Cultural Texts Different? What Do Literature And Other Fields Engaged In Cultural Work Hav In Com...

Simon Winchester. Maps On End Pages. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 251-253) And Index.Categories: ReferenceLanguage Study & Reference

A preeminent medievalist presents a wonderful catalog of real and fanciful beasts, including the manticore, griffin, phoenix, amphivius, jaculus, and many o...

From The Creator Of The Good Place And The Cocreator Of Parks And Recreation, A Hilarious, Thought-provoking Guide To Living An Ethical Life, Drawing On 2,5...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... En...

Prof. Nafisi Resigned From Her Job As Professor Of English Literature At A University In Tehran In 1995 Due To Repressive Government Policies. For The Next ...

George Steiner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Words, Language & GrammarLinguistics